Shoshone Indians

• The most famous Shoshone Indians was Sacajawea.
• There are about 10,000 Shoshone members today, most living in Nevada, Wyoming and Idaho. The largest group is in Wyoming on the Wind River Reservation.
• The basis of the Shoshone religion was a belief of dreams, visions, and a creator; and fostered individual self-reliance, courage, and wisdom to meet life's problems in a difficult environment.
• Most of the Shoshone ceremonies are dances similar to the Great Basin Round Dances.
• They adopted the Scalp Dance from the plains tribes and during the reservation period they began dancing the Sun Dance. Today the Sun Dance, a very important event, is held each summer.
• Called themselves Newe meaning "The People"
• They call their ancestral lands Newe Sogobia meaning "The People's Land"